Date of Award

5-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

History

First Advisor

J.A. McChrystal

Abstract

This is far from being the first treatise on the Magna Charta. Many books have been written and much research work has been done to gather new data concerning the essence of that immortal document. And still the work regarding its birth and survival goes on. It was only recently that the English people were shocked, out of their usual complacency by the press announcement of the proposed sale of the meadow called Runnymede on the Thames near Staines. The sacredness of that tract of land was not realized until it was brought to the sense of honor of the British that this land would become a common grazing meadow for fattening livestock. Of course, the Government stepped in and bought the land, setting it up as a memorial to the birth of the British Constitution. And so the story goes on, as to the discovery of new, yet very old copies of the Charter in out of the way abbeys or remnants of feudal castles which had been written for the purpose of promulgation.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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